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I believe that most public servants like their jobs, believe that they're acting in the public interest, would not consciously assist in or connive in something that was clearly morally wrong, let alone criminal.

We have handed special advisers immense power by conniving in their attempts to manage the flow of news.

The accusation that the king aimed at increasing the royal prerogative or deliberately connived at secret influence will not bear scrutiny.

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When someone connives at something wrong, they turn a blind eye to it. The word comes from French conniver or Latin connivere meaning ‘to shut your eyes to something’. An early meaning of connivance (late 16th century) was ‘winking’.